Some tunes stick in one’s memory, sometimes with remarkable persistence. Think of “Happy Birthday,” “Old MacDonald,” and “Row, Row, Row Your Boat.” In laboratory experiments, even infants exhibit a ...
Beginning in 1950, the group studied the top five songs on the Billboard chart at the time, all the way to 2023. Studying the rhythm and pitch of each batch of songs, the researchers found that the ...
Composer Camille Saint-Saëns would have celebrated his 181st birthday on Sunday. During his lifetime, he was one of the world’s most famous composers. Today he is best known for his “Carnival of the ...
In the Spring of 1947, when Israel Levis, composer of that most famous of rumbas "Rosas Puras," returned to Habana, Cuba, from Europe aboard the SS Fortuna, those of his old friends who had not seen ...
Most of us want to learn to play an instrument, but sometimes it’s hard to have patience to learn complex pieces of music, which is why this list of 16 easy piano songs that sound complicated is a ...
COOS BAY — Church choirs are usually more often heard than seen. Though they sing for crowds every week, they tend to be behind large organs, altars, pulpits and other view-obstructing objects. So ...
Stella Donnelly deals in the art of surprise. The Fremantle-based singer favours easy guitar-driven melodies and wields a nimble voice with a ye-ye-like sweetness. Her lyrics, though, are often barbed ...